ORNITHOLOGICAL SECTION 49 
on the side of a country lane. I found a nest of the same kind 
containing a cuckoo’s egg last year, not thirty yards farther up 
the road, in the same kind of bush. 
June 18, Tree-creeper’s nest in a piece of bark attached to 
the trunk of an old willow-tree. There were seven eggs, just 
like well-marked coletit’s eggs. The nest was made of bark. 
Some Ornithological Notes by a Member. 
March 20. , A robin’s nest with eggs was seen in a bank in 
the Sandy Lane. 
April 22, At Bentham, first noticed swallows, also saw 
whitethroat and willow-wren, and heard cuckoo. 
May 4. Ueard a nightingale at Leckhampton. 
May 9 (Leckhampton) was the earliest date I found swifts, 
and Seplember 12 (Shurdington) the latest date. 
In October a small flock of herring-gulls were seen passing 
over the College grounds in a south-west direction, a rather 
unusual sight. 
